Chapter 690: Interrogation, Confession!

The two old devils looked around the room.

Seeing Zhe Tianping looking like a defeated rooster, their faces changed dramatically.

When they saw Gangcun Ningci also present, their hearts skipped a beat.

They then struggled desperately, knowing that the embezzlement might have been exposed, but they still held a sliver of hope.

Yuesheng Huzhu kept shouting, "General, what on earth is going on?"

"They treat the two Younger Brother Country lieutenant generals like this, utterly disregarding superiors. General Okamura, if not severely punished, if subordinates imitate them, the army will fall into chaos."

"Yes, General, how can such a sacred place as the army tolerate their misconduct?" Jingshang Junxiong echoed.

The two old devils felt very strange.

"It's just a minor embezzlement; why would General Gangcun Ningci react so strongly?"

"Especially with the imminent battle, to stabilize morale, they shouldn't have made such an impulsive decision."

"You didn't expect this, did you? You've contacted the Red Party," Chen Yongren thought to himself.

Through scanning, he already knew the identities of those two old devils and what they had done.

The scheme of selling off supplies was entirely masterminded by them.

It would have been better if they hadn't said that.

Upon hearing that the army is so sacred, Gangcun Ningci flew into a rage, pointing at them and snarling, "Bah, you two bastards, you actually have the nerve to say that!"

"You'll lose all face for the soldiers!"

"Why?!"

Gangcun Ningci almost roared: "Why did you betray the Locust Army?!"

The two devils didn't think much, assuming Gangcun Ningci was angry because of their corruption.

Immediately, Gangcun Ningci turned to Chen Yongren and said, "Chief Director Sir, don't waste time—start now, by any means, make them confess all their crimes!"

"Hai!" Chen Yongren stood up and ordered, looking at Zhongyuan Shen.

Zhongyuan Shen instantly understood Chen Yongren's meaning and directly bound them tightly.

"What do you intend to do?"

Seeing Chen Yongren hefting a wooden stick as he approached, the two old devils felt a jolt in their hearts.

"What do you think I'm going to do? Don't you understand?" Chen Yongren coldly smiled at the two old devils before him: "Yuesheng, Jingshang, General Okamura already knows everything—I advise you to confess honestly, lest you suffer physical punishment!"

Having said that, Chen Yongren struck the two old devils with a stick, and they immediately let out a miserable scream.

Such a good opportunity to beat the little devils, Chen Yongren naturally wouldn't miss.

He needed to give them a good working over first, then use his mind-control skill to manipulate these bastards into acting out a play.

Zhongyuan Shen stood aside, eager to try.

After a few blows, the two devil soldiers could take no more and confessed in detail how they had used the transport routes to embezzle.

Gangcun Ningci knew that such a lucrative logistics department could never be completely clean, but he hadn't expected that a large portion of the medium- and large-sized military warehouses in North China were involved.

Yuesheng Huzhu and Jingshang Junxiong were also clever, understanding that those below eat their fill while those above get nothing; anyone involved could at least get a bite.

The embezzlement method was actually quite simple.

They used normal loss, keeping the loss at the baseline, then claimed losses during transport, warehouses being looted, improper guarding, etc., making the supplies disappear, with the lost supplies ending up on the black market.

What angered Gangcun Ningci most was that the Locust Army would later repurchase these very supplies.

Because it was all normal loss, and the warehouse base was large enough, they relied on small amounts accumulating, so it had never attracted outside notice.

That, however, saved Chen Yongren a lot of trouble.

Even when the sweep began and the front lines saw many non-combat casualties, they wouldn't suspect themselves.

After all.

These supplies had genuinely gone around the black market; who knows what the previous owner had mixed into them?

What if they were Military Statistics Bureau agents, posing as buyers to purchase these goods, then deliberately poisoning them, then disguising themselves as legitimate merchants to sell to the Japanese army?

Who could say for sure?

"Do you really think General Okamura doesn't know about this?" Chen Yongren deliberately put a gold stamp on Gangcun Ningci's face: "General Okamura is kind-hearted; he wants to give you a chance to reform!"

"But you, far from realizing your mistake, have even worsened it, colluding with the enemy and betraying the nation!"

"Not only did they try to assassinate the investigator, they even dared to set fire to the warehouse!"

"That's why the Locust Army's equipment suddenly appeared in the hands of the local Eighth Route—it turns out you lot of termites sold the equipment to the Eighth Route!"

"What?!"

"Eighth Route?"

Hearing this, the two devil lieutenant generals were shocked, their small eyes filled with great doubt.

"Your acting isn't bad—are you trying to say this has nothing to do with us?" Chen Yongren mocked.

"Of course, we're not stupid; munitions are the most sensitive matter—how could we dare to meddle with them?" Yuesheng Huzhu argued, straining his neck.

"Don't spout nonsense without evidence!" Jingshang Junxiong said: "Who knows which idiot lost a battle, letting the Eighth Route capture the weapons and equipment?"

"Zhongyuan Jun, they seem pretty stubborn." Chen Yongren threw a stool leg to Zhongyuan Shen: "Then trouble you to help them recall."

"Hai!" Zhongyuan Shen cheerfully took the order, then raised his stick and greeted them with blows, one miserable cry after another ringing out.

The chance to beat the lieutenant generals like this made Zhongyuan Shen ever more excited.

Colonels and lieutenant generals, when they fight, it's no different—their cries sound just like pigs in a slaughterhouse.

Not long after.

Soon, Yuesheng Huzhu and Jingshang Junxiong, the two old devils, were beaten black and blue, losing a few teeth, yet they remained tight-lipped, refusing to admit their treason.

After all, this was false; Chen Yongren couldn't expect them to confess, the preliminaries were done, so he didn't waste more time, instead activating mind control on the interrogated devils present.

Zhongyuan Shen's strikes grew ever harsher.

Bang!

The stool leg in Zhongyuan Shen's hand could no longer withstand his intense use and snapped.

Damn!

Zhongyuan Shen scratched his head irritably, glanced around, wanting to find a handy tool again.

"Zhongyuan, use this!" Chen Yongren picked up a pair of pliers from the table and threw it to Zhongyuan Shen.

Zhongyuan Shen eagerly took it, one hand prying open Yuesheng Huzhizhu's jaw, the other holding the pliers, and forcibly pulled out several of its dog teeth.

Yuesheng Huzhizhu kept spitting out blood.

Under Chen Yongren's manipulation, Yuesheng Huzhizhu grimaced and said, "Ball mom bag, I'll talk, I'll talk!"

"Yuesheng, you can't say that!" Jingshang Junxiong shouted to stop him.

"If we don't talk, we'll die!" Yuesheng Huzhizhu gritted his teeth and said, "We didn't betray the Locust Army; it was the Military Statistics Bureau people who threatened us..."